Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.
2015
RC394.C7 L37 2015 (Mapit)
On loan from General Collection, due 03. Apr 2023
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Title
Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.
Author
Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958-
ISBN
9780812989267 (paperback)
0812989260 (paperback)
9780812987577
0812987578
9780812998085 (electronic book)
0812989260 (paperback)
9780812987577
0812987578
9780812998085 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Random House, [2015]
Language
English
Description
269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number
RC394.C7 L37 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
617.5/1044
Summary
The unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who made one of the most significant medical discoveries of the twenty-first century, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts him in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the NFL.
In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. Iron Mike's mental deterioration caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game-- the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.
In 2002 forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. Iron Mike's mental deterioration caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game-- the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore.
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"A Random House Trade Paperback Original"--T.p. verso.
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Table of Contents
Obscurity
Running
Spiral
America
Fancy
The morgue
Discovery
Belonging
Attack
Scramble
Oddball
Comfort zone
Word
Daddy.
Running
Spiral
America
Fancy
The morgue
Discovery
Belonging
Attack
Scramble
Oddball
Comfort zone
Word
Daddy.